Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 12, 2007.

Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist, syndicated columnist and author of the international bestseller No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, called "a movement bible" by The New York Times. Her book Fences and Windows: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Globalization Debate was published in 2002 and in 2004 she and Avi Lewis released The Take, a feature documentary about Argentina's worker-occupied factories. Klein writes a regular column for The Nation and The Guardian. Her latest book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, was published earlier this year.

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Length: 1:36:50; Size: 22.2 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on March 28, 2007.

Carl Safina is the president of Blue Ocean Institute, whose main focus is using science, art, and literature to inspire a "sea ethic"—a closer relationship with the sea. His first book, Song for the Blue Ocean, takes readers on a global journey of discovery probing for truth about the world's changing seas, weaving adventure, science and political analysis along the way. His newest book, Voyage of the Turtle, is an impassioned account of the plight of ocean-dwelling turtles. Safina is also author of Eye of the Albatross and co-author of Seafood Lover's Almanac.

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Length: 1:21:39; Size: 56.1 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 24, 2007.

Tim Flannery is on a mission. He believes human activity is drastically altering the earth's climate, and in time these changes will have a devastating effect. In The Weather Makers: How Man is Changing the Climate and What it Means for Life on Earth, he traces the story of climate change over millions of years and exposes the substantial, human-induced impact and likely effects if this process continues. He then proposes a plan to halt, and ultimately reverse, this trend. The book has been published in 32 countries and has played a key role in international discussion of the issue. A regular contributor to The New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement, Flannery also contributes to NPR and the BBC.

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Length: 1:40:30; Size: 46.1 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on October 12, 2000.

Ana Castillo is a novelist, poet, essayist, and translator, whose books include Peel My Love Like an Onion; Loverboys; So Far from God; and Massacre of the Dreamers.

Born in Chicago of Mexican ancestry, Ms. Castillo has been honored with an NEA fellowship, an American Book Award, and the Carl Sandburg Prize. Ms. Castillo, whose work has explored the issues of war, ecology, oppression, and exploitation, is current working on a novel about women working in sweatshop conditions along the Mexican border.

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Length: 1:21:45; Size: 20.5 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 28, 2001.

Thomas Lynch is a poet and essayist whose books include The Undertaking, which was nominated for a National Book Award; Still Life in Milford; Skating with Heather Grace; and Bodies in Motion and at Rest.

Mr. Lynch lives in Milford, Michigan, where he works as a funeral director.

Dennis O'Driscoll, one of Ireland's most widely published and respected critics of poetry, was born in County Tipperary, Ireland. A civil servant since the age of 16, he works for Irish Customs in Dublin.

He has published six collections of poetry, the most recent being Exemplary Damages. O'Driscoll, who received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1999, was a featured author for Readings & Conversations in 2001 and 2003.

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Length: 0:33:54; Size: 9.0 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on September 29, 2004.

Chalmers Johnson is president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, a non-profit organization devoted to public education concerning Japan and international relations in the Pacific. He taught from 1962-1992 at the Berkeley and San Diego campuses of the University of California.

Johnson has written numerous articles and reviews and some sixteen books, including Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power on the Chinese revolution and Revolutionary Change on the theory of violent protest movements.

He played a prominent role in the development of the PBS television series The Pacific Century, as well as the PBS Frontline documentary Losing the War with Japan. His most recent books are Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire and The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic.

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Length: 1:17:50; Size: 21.4 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on June 29th, 2002.

Amy Goodman is the host and executive producer of Pacifica Radio's daily newsmagazine Democracy Now! which airs daily on over 400 stations in North America. Goodman has interviewed several Lannan guests including Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, and Robert Fisk.

Goodman has also won numerous awards for the radio documentary she co-produced with journalist Allan Nairn, "MASSACRE: The Story of East Timor," including the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for International Reporting, the Alfred I. DuPont-Columbia Silver Baton, the Armstrong Award, the Radio/Television News Directors Award, as well as awards from AP, UPI, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.

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Length: 1:10:59; Size: 16.3 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 30, 2007.

Terry Tempest Williams has been called "a citizen writer," a writer who speaks and speaks out eloquently on behalf of an ethical stance toward life. A naturalist and fierce advocate for freedom of speech, she has consistently shown us how environmental issues are social issues that ultimately become matters of justice. Known for her impassioned and lyrical prose, Terry Tempest Williams is the author of the environmental literature classics, Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place; An Unspoken Hunger: Stories from the Field; Desert Quartet; Leap; Red - Patience and Passion in the Desert; and The Open Space of Democracy. Her new book, Mosaic: Finding Beauty in a Broken World, will be published in 2008.

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Length: 1:20:25; Size: 55.3 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on May 9, 2007.

Gore Vidal is the author of twenty-two novels, five plays, many screenplays, more than two hundred essays, and the critically lauded, Palimpsest: A Memoir. Vidal's United States (Essays 1952-1992) won the 1993 National Book Award. In its "American Masters" series PBS said "Vidal's lineage in American literature may be traced back to Henry James, the sophisticated American from the upper echelons of society who mingles with European sophisticates, and Mark Twain, the raw humorist and critic of American empire."

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Length: 1:10:28; Size: 48.4 MB

Recorded at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on January 31, 2007.

Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies.  His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers. His most recent work is Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences . Weschler, awarded a Lannan Award for Nonfiction in 1999, is currently director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU.

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Length: 30:44; Size: 14.1 MB